I have spent many hours in the past few weeks listening to noisy, tuneless recordings on these lines and would be delighted to hear some soothing classical music.Īt a local swimming pool recently the radio was blaring out “Your sex is on fire” at 7.30am.
SIR – Well done to Colin Soden (Letters, November 8) for finding the origin of the NHS telephone waiting-line tune. Mr Pearson might indeed find that the many other uses of a smartphone make his life more convenient generally. However, since more than 90 per cent of the British population now own a smartphone, it is not surprising that many financial and other transactions can only be performed in this way. SIR – David Pearson’s bank requires him to have a smartphone to set a lower limit on his contactless card. SIR – I was beginning to feel a bit of a Luddite about smartphones, so was pleased to read David Pearson’s letter (Letters, November 8) in which he says he does not have one, need one, want one or wish to pay for one. I assume he must have his shirts specially made to accommodate all that brass neck. SIR – What a pleasure to receive moral guidance from Matt Hancock, who says health workers should be required by law to be vaccinated. This means that an unvaccinated health worker won’t be allowed into a nightclub – presumably because of the danger of passing on the virus to healthy people out for the night – but can go into a hospital and infect sick people lying in bed and hoping to be cured. SIR – NHS staff will continue to be allowed to work while unvaccinated. I wonder if my vaccine status will have been updated by then or if the NHS waiting list applies also to the app. Since then the app has been updated, and my vaccine status now expires on December 8. SIR – On November 5 I noticed that the NHS app was not showing my booster jab, and that the validity of my current vaccination status expired on December 2. The health service has taken its eye off a programme that was so successful initially.
It is now well over 190 days since my second vaccination, I am 75 and I have had no correspondence from either my doctor or the NHS. SIR – It is extremely annoying to hear government sources telling us that the third Covid vaccination is not being taken up by the elderly. SIR – Was Sir Keir Starmer so angry about standards when, for example, his own party willingly accepted cash from Max Mosley? He stayed in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, knowing of his party’s anti-Semitism. What, then, are the ethics in accepting money from China in the light of its treatment of the Uyghurs? SIR – Many of us might agree with Professor Lawrence Goldsmith’s views on the donations from the Mosley family to a British university. My lasting feeling from this meeting was not that it should not have been allowed to take place, but rather the chilling realisation as to how rapidly a skilled orator of some charisma can turn a hostile crowd round and persuade it of the superficial reasonableness of hateful basic ideas.Įven more so today with the widespread use of social media. Within 15 minutes, Mosley had calmed the hall, which then listened quietly to the rest of his presentation. It opened to audience barracking and the waving of SS daggers and other Nazi symbols. SIR – As a photographer in 1956 on the Cambridge University student newspaper Varsity, I attended a packed meeting at which the speaker was Oswald Mosley. SIR – If, as the Royal Court theatre has claimed, it was “unconscious bias” that allowed the use of the patently Jewish name Hershel Fink for a billionaire with malign intentions in the play Rare Earth Mettle, what would “conscious” bias look like? SIR – Is there a link between taking fascist money, speakers from Israel being banned and the anti-Semitism that is rife in universities? The Mosley name should never be allowed to reinvent or dignify itself. For colleges to rely on the committee decision is a classic fig-leaf exercise. I wonder which ethical standards or issues of reputation were taken into account by the committee when approving receipt of these donations. SIR – Oxford University and two of its colleges, St Peter’s and Lady Margaret Hall, seek to justify willing receipt of millions of pounds of Mosley money as the donations were considered and approved by an independent committee taking "ethical and reputational issues into consideration”.Īs a boy growing up in Hackney in the 1950s I saw, and I will never forget, Mosley and his Blackshirt gangs marching through the East End spouting disgusting anti-Semitic and racist propaganda and provoking 1930s-style Nazi street fights.
0 kommentar(er)
